A/N: I am so sorry for this long wait for this chapter! I was very busy these past couple of months and I had a major case of writer's block as well. Both are not very good combinations and I feel horrible for not updating sooner. But I want to thank you all for all your continued support and last chapter was actually the most reviews I've ever received, so really, thank you. It means so much that you guys are enjoying this story. And you will never have to wait this long for an update... ever again, trust me, I feel horrible for not updating.
And on that note, I hope you all enjoy the chapter!
P.S. I did change my penname from T.D. Guzman to theRoseandthePearl, so if that causes confusion, I am deeply sorry for that too. I thought the old one was too professional lol.
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Stephanie Sparrow: Thank you so much! I am so sorry that you had to wait this long for this chapter. Hmmm you are going to have to wait and see... but hopefully not for too long ;). Hope you enjoy the new chapter!
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Now on with the chapter!
Chapter Ten: Her Death Wish
The Black Pearl was moored at the mouth of the cave. This was the closest Jack had seen it in years, and the ghastly presence the ship brought didn't dare put a stop to Jack's thinking that it was beautiful. He pulled out his spyglass and narrowed his eye into it, skimming it for any sign of his old crew or Barbossa on it. But, to much of his dismay, there was no one on the ship that he could see. Jack frowned as he felt Lottie's worried gaze on him, they were late, but not too late. He took his spyglass away from his eye and Lottie gripped the oars that she had, ready to row. Jack stated to the two of them, "It's begun."
Charlotte shook her head, eying Will between them for a moment before she nodded. Jack gestured for her to row in the direction behind him toward the mouth of the cave. Will kept his eyes straying on the Black Pearl as they rowed, what had begun? What was Jack referring to? Will decided to ask them both, "What's begun? Why can't we go on that ship where Elizabeth is?"
"Because she won't be there, Will," Lottie answered him with her lips pressed in a fine line. Jack peered over his shoulder to give her a warning look, but Charlotte added on, "You are not dealing with your regular, everyday pirates, Will. These pirates are cursed."
Will's eyes widened hearing this, his eyebrow immediately going up at hearing this. Cursed. What did she mean by cursed? Will turned his head immediately to Jack, his eyes narrowing accusingly. How many other things did Jack fail to mention to him? His trust in Jack decreased after hearing this. Jack heaved a large sigh and nodded, although he made a mental note to kill Charlotte after this. He said to Will, "They cannot die. Therefore they are incapable of dying right now. They believe that your dolly belle, whats-her-face—,"
"Elizabeth," Will cut in, his voice rigid.
"Aye, her, they believe she to be the blood they need."
"And you knew this?" Will asked him angrily, his hand tightening on the torch he held. Charlotte shushed him and motioned toward the mouth of the cave they were soon going to enter. She didn't want his voice to echo if it was possible. Will lowered his voice and turned to her, "And you knew too."
"Aye, we both knew." Lottie stated to him.
"So, why didn't either of you mention this to me?" Will asked her. He knew Jack wasn't going to tell him, but he knew Lottie would. Charlotte rolled her eyes, his persistence to save the woman he loved was enough to tell her that he wouldn't even cared.
Lottie retorted to him, "Would it even matter, Will? We didn't tell you because we thought that it wouldn't even matter. I'm sure a simple curse wouldn't stop you." The curse was far from simple. But Charlotte couldn't say that to him. Will then didn't ask anymore questions to her, he only hung his head for a moment realizing that she was right. Jack eyed her from behind his shoulder, giving her a glare for telling him about it. But Jack was given a knowing look from her, and he realized that there would be only a few moments where Will would have truly found out about this.
He was bound to find out anyway. She was only doing it so he wouldn't be surprised. But Will had the gears in his head already working out what he already knew about these two and Barbossa. Both Lottie and Jack hardly noticed this. He asked curiously after, "And what is Gibbs to keep to if the worst should happen?"
"A horrible thing," Lottie mumbled to herself.
Jack pretended that he didn't hear that, and thankfully his back was to her so she couldn't see him roll his eyes at her. He took the liberty in answering this question, "The Pirate's Code." Just the name of it sent shivers up and down Charlotte's back. She hated it, but she was trying to start following it again for the sake of things. She only broke it once in her life and it was because of the mutiny, but that was it. Jack continued on, "One who falls behind, is left behind."
Will huffed at that, his eyes roamed around the cave. He said, "No heroes amongst thieves, eh?" He looked over at Charlotte for a moment, causing her eyebrow to raise when she caught his eyes wandering over to her. Why was he looking at her like that? Charlotte parted her mouth, but Will quickly adverted his eyes on other things around the cave.
Jack started to him, "For having such a bleak outlook on pirates, you're well on your way to becoming one." Charlotte smirked at Will with a small nod, but Will hardly noticed. His face twisted at that statement though. Jack explained to him, he could almost picture the look on Will's face just by his small comment. "You sprung a man from jail, commandeered a ship and a fleet, sailed with a buccaneer crew out of Tortuga..." Jack trailed off as he noticed the gold laying on the bottom of the cove's floor, he also noticed another reflection looking down at it as well. He smirked to himself as his rowing subsided. "And you're completely obsessed with treasure."
Will was startled by that and looked over at him in disbelief. He was not. Charlotte looked at him amused before she stopped rowing herself, the shore of the cove was coming up. "That's not true!" He whispered loudly to Jack as Lottie gestured for him to get out. Charlotte jumped out of the longboat and while Jack had gotten out himself, her and Will pulled up in the shore. Will gripped the oar tightly for a moment as if he was going to hit Jack with it, before he dropped in the boat. "I am not obsessed with treasure."
Charlotte rolled her eyes at that before she followed Jack up on a rock hill. She ignored the shimmers of gold that were coming her way as she passed. When she climbed up next to Jack, she made sure to be careful to not step in the wrong spot. She took in a sharp breath when she saw everyone from the Black Pearl crowded around the mound of gold in the center. They were all cheering on Barbossa who was on top of it, holding a girl by her arms next to him. He looked the same, Barbossa. Although he looked more weathered from sailing, he still looked the same. However, he gave Charlotte more chills when looking at him than what she had before.
The girl next to him was tall with blonde hair. She wore a maroon dress that didn't fit her figure at all and she kept her chin up as she eyed the pirates around her nervously. The medallion dangled from her neck. Charlotte knew immediately who this was just by the brief description. This was Elizabeth Swann. Now Charlotte saw why Turner was so taken by her. Jack shared in this sight too, and once Will came closer to them, Jack looked over his shoulder and told him, "Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate."
Charlotte picked up her head and peered over at him as Will climbed up this hill of rock. Jack didn't look at her as he turned his head forward. Will's eyes were locked on the the girl in Barbossa's hold. He breathed in her name, "Elizabeth."
"Gentlemen!" Hardly were they gentlemen. Charlotte looked over to narrow her eyes at Barbossa, her grip on the rocks tightened, his voice never changed either. The crew settled down a bit, he still had that trait also, to call the attention of the room to him. He continued, "The time has come! Our salvation is nigh! Our torment is near at end. For ten years we've been tested and tried," Barbossa pointed his knife at all his men, gesturing to each and every one of them, "and proved his mettle a hundred times over," 'ayes' and 'yeahs' were bouncing around at that, "and a hundred times again!" His crew showed their agreement loudly at that.
"Suffered, I have!" Ragetti stated. Charlotte's eyes skimmed over each of them to find the man with the wooden eye. She remembered him far too clearly. She almost cringed thinking about the man's blooming wooden eye. The sound of it squeezing in his empty socket always would give her the chills.
"Punished we were!" Barbossa added on afterward. Lottie looked back at him and her lips twitched a little. "The lot of us, disproportionate to our crimes." Lottie almost growled in her throat at the sound of that. Disproportionate? They got what they deserved. "Here it is!" He kicked open the lid to the chest and Lottie found herself widening her eyes once the gold shimmers from those coins reached her eyes. She gulped. Aztec gold. Barbossa's dirty hand skimmed over every piece and said, "The cursed treasure of Aztec himself. Every last piece that went astray, we have returned... save for this!"
He grabbed the chain around Elizabeth's neck and pulled it forward just so that she had her head hanging over the chest. Elizabeth gasped and this caused Will to stand up immediately, "Jack!"
"No!" Lottie pulled his arm down immediately and a pile of coins slipped off the rock once his hand landed on it. The jerk of his arm forced him back down to not be seen behind this rock.
"Not yet. We wait until the opportune moment." Jack warned him quietly. He looked to Lottie and nodded to her, she knew what that would mean. Her and Jack were going to have to make their appearance sometime right now. The two both stood up while Barbossa and the crew continued on with their ritual, and then made their way to leave Will behind that rock. Lottie followed almost every step Jack had made.
"And when's that?" Will whispered harshly to them, following Lottie and Jack. "When it's of greatest profit to you?" Lottie and Jack stopped dead in their tracks. They looked at each other carefully, Lottie picking up the brim of her hat a little to narrow her eyes at him confused. Did he know? Jack was narrowing his eyes accusingly toward her and immediately, Lottie found herself shaking her head no to him. Jack took an annoyed breath before he turned on his heel. Lottie just stayed by the wall. She was the one that said Jack's plan would backfire on him. Therefore she wasn't going to get involved.
Jack said walking over to him with his hands out, "May I ask you something? Have I ever given you reason not to trust me?" Charlotte had the sudden to throw a yes to him, but didn't. If Charlotte was Will right now, she wouldn't trust a word he was saying. "Do us a favor—I know it's difficult for you, but please stay here and try not to do anything stupid." And with that, Jack turned on his heel and went ahead of Lottie. Charlotte opened her mouth for a moment and turned her head to look at Will with a frown.
Then she followed Jack, knowing that was what she should do. But he held out a hand to her to stop her before she reached him. "You," he started to her, "Stay with him."
"What?"
"You heard me, love," Jack said, turning his head with an annoyed look in his eye. "Stay with him and make sure that he won't do anything he would bloody regret." Charlotte stared at him in disbelief. She wasn't... she wasn't going to be this kid's nanny for right now! Did he have any idea with who he was talking to? Jack only had to tilt his head toward her and perk his eyebrows only for her to grumble under her breath and walk back in the general direction toward Will. But, something was strange.
Will was no longer there. "Will?" She asked. How... he was there not even a few seconds ago. She reluctantly walked over to where he was, but she turned her head sharply when she heard a loud clunk against something. Her eyes widened when she saw Will with an oar in his hand. "Are you insane?" Lottie whispered harshly to him as she quickly went over to him. Will didn't expect her to notice him doing this.
The young man gripped his oar and took a swing at Lottie to knock her out along with Jack, but little did he know that Lottie was almost expecting that. "I wouldn't be doing that," she told him warningly, catching the oar before it could hit her. With all her strength, Lottie took the oar in both her hands before throwing it to the ground.
"I'm not going to be your leverage," he said to her determined. "I know everything about Jack being the Captain of the Pearl and about you and the mutiny. You two were going to use—."
"He was. I wasn't." Charlotte replied to him coldly. Will faltered back a little, but that still didn't matter. She went along with it. "He knew exactly what he was doing and you could have bloody well have gotten Elizabeth by now if you weren't so bloody stupid in getting him knocked out." Charlotte couldn't even look at him right right now. She went on her knees and hung her head over Jack's body. She shook her head, and she still felt the whelp's presence around her as she grazed her hand on his face, feeling his stubble underneath her fingers. He was out cold.
"Will he be okay?" Will actually asked to her. Charlotte picked up her head and shrugged.
"He took harder hits, not to worry..." she said to him. There was a cheer amongst the pirates and both of their heads turned to see what was going on. Charlotte looked back at Will and slowly said to him calmly, "Just... get Elizabeth. Might as well, since you couldn't wait before, right?" She faked a smirk to him. "I'll take care of this one." Will slowly backed away from her with a reluctant nod to her and then he went off to get Elizabeth.
Charlotte took her attention to Jack beneath her. She shook her head. "Goddamn whelp," she muttered. "I'm going to be blamed for this stupid boy's actions too."
She pursed her lips and sighed to herself. How was she going to wake him up before—? Charlotte's head snapped once she heard a gunshot. Her eyes widen once she saw Barbossa holding a smoking pistol in his hand. "You're not dead."
"No... he shot me!"
"The curse is still upon us!" Charlotte's eyes widened even more if it was possible, they practically felt that they were going to bulge out. She looked down to Jack and started to shake him awake.
"Jack, Jack, wake up!" She whispered loudly to him, lightly slapping his cheek. She heard a loud slap come from the mound of treasure with pieces of it falling off that mound. Charlotte was tempted to look behind her shoulder to what had happened, but she couldn't. She didn't want to. "Jack." She said through her teeth, slapping him still on the face, only this time they were a little harder. Charlotte wasn't getting any response.
She looked up briefly and caught a glimpse of Will helping Elizabeth into the water. She had to give it to him. The boy had a lot of nerve. She saw Barbossa's crew start to yell at Barbossa and she watched Barbossa threatening them with a knife. Charlotte felt herself stiffen, she wondered when they were going to notice her missing from their midst. That was when she heard a groan. Charlotte's eyes widened and she looked down at Jack who was slowly sitting up from where he was. He looked partly dazed when he looked around, his head reeling as he was looking.
"Jack!" Charlotte said to him, immediately taking his shoulders and kissing him on the cheek before hugging him close to her. Jack's eyes briefly looked down at this, not sure of what to do. Charlotte parted away from him, a grin was beginning to show on her face. "You're okay."
Jack pointed at her, but his finger was going back and forth as the image of her had split into two, "Why... why are they two of you? Stay still."
"What?"
"Stop your bloody moving, Lottie."
"I'm not moving a damn—."
"The medallion!" Both Lottie and Jack seemed to have turned their heads to hear Barbossa yell out. The grin off of Lottie's face had fallen when Barbossa continued, "She's taken it! Get after her, you feckless ingrates!" Charlotte immediately scrambled up to her feet and offered Jack a hand who had taken an oar in his other before he gave it to Lottie so she could pull him up. Only, when he had gotten up to his feet, his balance was off. Way off. So off, that his body almost fell into Charlotte's before he gripped her shoulder, letting go of her hand.
Charlotte looked to Jack as the crew of the Black Pearl were beginning to search for Elizabeth. "We're going to have to go before we're spotted."
Jack nodded to her, "I couldn't agree with you more." And with that, Jack gripped her elbow to actually lead her away from the madness around the mound. The crew were spreading out all over, searching for clues to find Elizabeth 'Turner.' Both Charlotte and Jack were moving awfully slow to get out of there, Jack using the oar to keep his balance. In fact, Charlotte was getting more and more annoyed with this.
Whatever came through her mind right now, she would never know. But what she did was naïve, she would soon figure out. His grip on her elbow was loose enough.
She looked around herself before she actually took her elbow back and went her own way. In a more quickened pace, she found herself going in a new direction away from the pirates and from Jack. "The oars have gone missing!" She heard a familiar voice. Charlotte ran behind a large rock that was in front of the glimmering water that led to the cove. She pressed her back against it, the voice seemed too close for her to move any further from that spot. "Find them!"
Stupid. Why did she do this again?
Charlotte peered around the rock she was behind to see the man that she would never want to see in her lifetime ever again. Bo'sun. That man on the Black Pearl, apart from a few others, this man she knew far too well. No doubt that he was first mate now, back then, after they got rid of Jack, Bo'sun had it in for her. He was then always after her spot on the ship as being Barbossa's right hand man. Bo'sun looked over her way as if he knew that she was watching him, Lottie quickly moved her head. So fast that her hat almost fell off.
She pulled down on the brim of it, hoping it would shield her green eyes as she stood there frozen as a statue. But she didn't at all catch a hint of his footsteps as he walked to the other side of the rock. Charlotte only heard him breathe.
She looked from underneath the brim of her hat to see Bo'sun standing right there. Not necessarily looking straight at her though, more like the other way as the group of pirates gathered around something... or maybe someone. Bo'sun walked closer to there, almost letting Lottie have her sigh of relief, but that quickly turned into a gasp.
A sharp tug on her blonde hair made her head go backward, "Miss Eliza—!" The man that gripped her head growled to her, but was cut off immediately when Charlotte's hat fell off her head, revealing her face to the man that she really didn't want to see any less than Bo'sun. A crooked grin appeared on the man's face, he found something better than Elizabeth. Charlotte was staring up into the blue eyes of an evil man. "Well, if it isn't me first mate?" He pulled on the bunch of hair in his hand harder, causing Charlotte to yelp from it, her hand holding the top of her head.
The pain came, just as fast as it left though. Captain Hector Barbossa had let go of the bunch of hair in his hand and Charlotte picked up her head to look at the menace before her. That was right, she looked at him like a menace. "Captain," she addressed him mockingly with a bow of her head. "Missed me, did ya?" She asked him, picking her head up. Barbossa only narrowed his eyes at her. "Heard you've been looking for me?"
The next thing that happened, happened too fast for her to even remember afterward. Barbossa brought back his hand quickly and just like he had done with that whore by the chest of Aztec Gold, he hit Charlotte hard against her cheek with the back of his hand. Charlotte tumbled downward as the force of his hand brought her to the cave's floor. Her hand immediately went to nurse that cheek as she landed roughly. "Bo'sun!" Barbossa barked to the man that she was dreading to see before as well.
Bo'sun came almost immediately to his Captain, but his eyes landed on Charlotte who was on the cave's floor. Blood from one of the rings on Barbossa's hand, dribbled down from her cheek bone. She touched it in disbelief as she felt a strong hand on the top of her shoulder and she was brought to her feet. "Sparrow's here, too," Bo'sun told him in almost a growl. Charlotte grimaced as his harsh breath hit her ear. Barbossa's seemed to perk at this.
He chortled in disbelief for a moment before he looked to Charlotte who was avoiding his gaze. "The two found each other then, eh?" Charlotte felt his gaze on top of her, burning a hole in the side of her head before she would look right at him. She wasn't going to... she didn't think it was going to work... she wasn't going to let it. But she almost jumped when she heard his voice boom in front of her, "Bring 'im!" He shouted, briefly taking his eyes off of her. Then he moved them to Bo'sun, "Let 'er watch." Charlotte's eyes went wide and she looked up at Barbossa alarmingly as Bo'sun let out a cruel laugh next to her.
"No," Charlotte mumbled as she felt herself being pulled back as Barbossa only tilted his head back at her. Watch what? Charlotte could only imagine. "Let me go!" She told Bo'sun harshly as she struggled against his tight hold on her. Bo'sun only tightened his hands on her. "I said, let me go!" Charlotte tried tearing herself away from him but in a flash she felt a a cold metal pressed against her throat. Charlotte stopped immediately and kept her head back as far as she could.
Barbossa smirked from afar, "I wouldn't be doing that, Lottie," started he as he took several steps toward her. Charlotte visibly gulped. "Not unless ye wanna die faster." Charlotte pressed her lips together and locked her jaw to the side as she let slow breaths go out and into her nose.
"How the blazes did you get off that island?" Barbossa asked to Jack as Jack stood in the center of the cave, standing there with both of his hands atop on a lone oar with a crooked grin on his face. How, he asked? Jack sent a careful look to Lottie however before he would answer him. She was on the sidelines with her head tilted up and a knife pressed against her throat, her chest heaving up and down as she took hurried breaths, her eyes peering down at Jack worriedly. She had no reason to worry about Jack, for he was under the code of parley... Jack thought that he should really worry about her... or she about herself.
But after that quick glance at her, Jack answered Barbossa, trying to keep the grin still on his face as he practically spat the answer at him. "When you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate." Charlotte practically rolled her eyes, already knowing what was coming next. "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."
It was simultaneous when both Charlotte and Barbossa scoffed at that. And neither of them took notice of the other. However Bo'sun, hearing that, pressed the knife harder against her. Charlotte whimpered and she heard Bo'sun tell her warningly, "You, be silent." Charlotte only locked her jaw and narrowed her eyes over to him in a glare.
Barbossa carried on to Jack, walking toward him and having almost the same tone Jack had before, "Ah, well I won't be making that mistake again." Barbossa then turned around with his arms spread apart, mockingly. Charlotte knew that look all too well even when the last she saw him was ten years ago. "Gents, we all remember Captain Jack Sparrow... and his whore." Charlotte had to look away as the men on the crew started to laugh crudely at that. Jack merely only furrowed his brow, almost forgetting who exactly was that. But then he remembered Lottie mentioning something along the lines of that to him. "Kill 'im." Barbossa said.
Charlotte's widened and she brought her hands up to pry Bo'sun's arm off of her as the rest of the crew points their pistols and swords at Jack. "No!" She said, but Bo'sun was sure to sneak an arm under hers and lock her in place. The knife was held closer to her throat as well and that was enough to have her stop.
"The girl's blood didn't work, did it?" Jack asked to Barbossa calmly and gave a quick glance to Charlotte who narrowed her eyes at him almost confused. Barbossa froze where he stood... how did he know about the girl? Then the realization showed on Barbossa's face as he turned on his heel to face him.
Barbossa ordered quickly, "Hold your fire!" There were several groans heard around them and Charlotte noticed the look Pintel gave Ragetti as he roughly put the safety back on his pistol and hid it under his belt. "You know whose blood we need," he accused to him, only making Jack's grin grow on his face.
He nodded his head toward Lottie and asked, "Lottie, love, do we know whose blood they need?"
Barbossa's eyes fell on her along with many other members of his crew. Bo'sun loosened the knife against her throat only for her to answer that. Charlotte briefly glared over at him before she smirked weakly at Barbossa, "Aye, we do know whose blood you need." Barbossa looked at her for a long moment with narrowed eyes and then turned his gaze toward Jack. He briefly looked between them before looking at Bo'sun.
"Bring 'er here." Bo'sun moved the knife briefly away from her and pushed her roughly forward. Charlotte actually let him move her forward, her head hanging a little and not daring to look Barbossa in the eye who was glaring at her. When she was in front of Barbossa, Bosun moved the knife back on her throat and forced Charlotte to look up at Barbossa by pulling her head back. She yelped and closed her eyes for a moment as the pain came suddenly just as before. Barbossa smacked her hat off of her head as well and it fell onto the cave ground next to her.
Charlotte opened her eyes and pulled her lips back almost in a snarl as Barbossa stared at her emotionless. It was a cold five minutes before either of them, or anyone else, said a word and Jack was starting to feel uncomfortable watching this. Barbossa started to her, "The name... Lottie," the name didn't sound as nice as it usually sounded when it left other people's mouths. Charlotte would rather be called Charlie right now.
"Why..." Charlotte trailed off once she felt Bo'sun tug on her hair harder from behind, practically pulling it out of her head. Why must have been what he didn't want to hear. Charlotte then shook her head no at him reluctantly and faked a smirk at him, "What makes ya think that I'll tell you, mate?"
"Peas in a pod," Barbossa stated to her simply, "Or have ye forgotten that, Miss Hooke?"
"She ain't going to tell you, mate," Jack intruded in, his grin momentarily falling as he glanced at her concerned. Then he quickly looked back at Barbossa. "She won't tell you a word... and neither will I."
"Ah, well in that case," Barbossa looked over at Bo'sun and was about to nod at him for the order that he knew and wanted to do already. "Kill the we—."
"I'll consider telling you, if you keep her alive and exchange something to me." Jack quickly added in and the breath that Charlotte was holding was finally let out when Barbossa turned his head toward Jack again. He kept his hand held out to hold the order he had. "If not..." Jack made a quick motion toward his mouth that Charlotte caught on quickly to. Barbossa only looked at him puzzled, not getting what was meant by the gesture at all. "No word is coming out of me mouth, Hector."
The corner of Barbossa's lip twitched into a scowl and with a roll of his eyes, he gritted his teeth and looked over at Bo'sun. The scowl only grew wider when he looked at Charlotte, but she only narrowed her eyes at him, not really phased by it at all. Barbossa had a thought about killing Sparrow and breaking Charlotte that way to tell him pass by briefly, but knowing what he remembered of Charlotte Hooke was that it was safe to assume that she wouldn't tell him at all. But the thought left him as quick as it came to him and he found himself actually ordering them aboard his ship.
When the order was barked, the crew moved quickly to comply and Bo'sun regrettably let the knife on Charlotte fall and let go the bunches of hair he had of hers in his hand. Charlotte doubled over and took in a deep breath, her hand going to her throat feeling an indent there from the cold metal he pressed hard against it. Jack used the oar he had as a cane and came to her, bending down and picking up the hat Barbossa smacked off of her head before.
A/N: I hope the chapter lived to your expectations with how the meeting with Charlotte and Barbossa went! Lol, I had to change it several times because I didn't think the other ideas would have worked. Hope you all enjoyed the chapter and I'll try to update really soon! Definitely faster than the last update! :)
Thank you for reading!